High Frequency Trading

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Delivering ultra-precise time to the trading infrastructure for system optimization, risk management, and improved trading performance

Chronos is building on its 25 years of experience in timing vital telecoms infrastructure and Symmetricom's market leading technologies to deliver scalable, traceable time to trading and logging servers. Precise and accurate time is increasingly critical to the success of many high-speed, low-latency trading systems. Whether it is improving the time stamp accuracy on archived data for algorithm optimisation, or synchronising the time between trading servers in a rack or around the world for trading risk management and performance monitoring, precise time is a key enabler of better performance. Chronos’ partnership with Symmetricom delivers the end-to-end precise time synchronisation solutions needed to maintain competitiveness and gain competitive advantage.

Products for High Frequency Trading

	TimeProvider 5000 for Financial Services High-speed low-latency trading systems need reliable and precise time synchronization across all related aspects of the trading process. The TimeProvider 5000 features dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and high performance PTP Grandmaster operations with line speed packet processing making it an excellent solution for high speed stock trading networks.
	SyncServer S350 + PTP Ultra Precise & Versatile GPS Network Time Server. Versatile network time servers are often needed to meet the requirements for demanding, high performance network time synchronization as well as supply traditional time and frequency technology. The SyncServer® S350™ provides unsurpassed NTP performance for the IT network while being the most versatile time server in the world for traditional time and frequency applications.
	SyncPoint PCIe-1000 PTP Clock Card The Symmetricom® SyncPoint™ PCIe-1000 provides ultra-high availability time with sub-microsecond accurate time stamps for programs running in Linux. The IEEE 1588 based SyncPoint™ PCIe-1000 has been optimized to be resilient to network related time errors and provides nanosecond caliber time as needed to a Linux program in under a microsecond. Time is acquired from a PTP grandmaster clock over an Ethernet network.
	TimeKeeper Software for Linux TimeKeeper™ is an easy-to-use, low-overhead client that precisely synchronizes a computer’s clock to a remote PTP/NTP time server. Simply plug TimeKeeper into local systems and within five minutes all their processes are synchronized to within 10 microseconds with no discontinuous time jumps or clock lurches. No special libraries or software modifications are required and system overhead is virtually non-existent.